"Project Runway" ends its 10th season tonight, bringing to a close a competition that has been light on brilliant design but interesting and competitive nonetheless.

The four remaining designers - Fabio Costa, Melissa Fleis, Christopher Palu and Dmitry Sholokhov - each has something to recommend them, and no one looks like a clear-cut favorite.

Last week, the designers each showed three looks from their collections, and one of them was supposed to go home based on that. But judges Heidi Klum, Michael Kors and Nina Garcia declined to kick anyone out, and all four advanced to the finale. To the Watcher's untrained eye, Christopher's outfits looked like the least of the lot, but he had won the most challenges during the season, and the judges may have been reluctant to toss him at the penultimate moment.

The designers showed their works at New York's Mercedes Benz Fashion Week on Sept. 8, along with four other contestants who were yet to be eliminated on the broadcasts: Gunnar Deatherage, Ven Budhu, Sonjia Williams and Elena Slivnyak.

The folks at the excellent website Blogging Project Runway put together photos of everyone's collections. Once again, the decision seems like it will be a difficult one. But forced to make a prediction, the Watcher will go with Dmitry, even though he made up his models to look like Romulans.

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